Writing for Children and Young Adults

The Spalding Writing for Children & Young Adults program gives equal weight to audience considerations and serious study of craft. Our prize-winning, publishing faculty includes Newbery Honor winners and NEA Award winners who write picture books, middle-grade fiction and historical nonfiction, and YA fiction and poetry.

Our writing for children & YA alumni and students have published numerous titles and have won awards including the E.B. White Honor Book Award, Ezra Jack Keats Award, and Parents’ Choice Gold Award; been listed on the American Library Association Rainbow List and ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers List; received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly;and been named a Good Morning America Best Summer Read.